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When looking for an online business degree program, there’s no reason to limit your options to the standard online Bachelor of Science in Business. There are a variety of online business degree programs available to prospective students across the nation, though some of them might be harder to find than others.

The following are the five secret online business degrees every aspiring student should consider, available from prestigious, accredited distance learning universities.

The education industry is expected to be on fire this year as high school graduates and adult learners alike head to college to acquire the education needed to survive today’s economy. New Years resolutions should not instigate these prospective students to sign up faster, though; rather than diving blindly into college education, DegreeGo encourages students to research potential schools and find the best match for them. This Best Colleges of 2010 list should help begin this college searching process.

Diploma mills are the banality that put a kink in the distance learning movement. Online education’s still frowned upon by the employers of the new decade thanks to “colleges” and “universities” offering printable diplomas for a single exam and/or a fee. These fraudulent schools stick out for their easy or nonexistent education programs, for the ability to “upgrade” to a master’s degree for $100, and for lacking the accreditation applied to campus and online schools alike.

One of the ways that professionals are unveiling the diploma mills sprinkled across the Internet is by enrolling their cats. That’s right; Fluffy with an M.B.A.! The stories of cats with fraudulent diplomas reveals the dangers of diploma mills to Wikipedia readers and raises the question on the integrity of online education. It makes two strong points to the learning public…

When is it time to go to school? After graduating high school? When your children move out of the house? In the middle of your professional career? Students of all ages are attending college, for different reasons and under different time constraints, but this doesn’t mean that every time is the right time to go back to school. Here are ten telltale signs that a college degree may be the right investment for you.

There are several different approaches to acquiring a college degree; the varieties stem from different schedule restraints, locations, and ways in which people learn. For some students, only one option is feasible. For others, all the options are viable choices and it’s just a matter of finding out which one is the most appropriate for the student’s way of learning.

So which one is right for you? To help this decision, consider the U.S. Department of Education’s recently conducted study, which spanned over the course of twelve years. They observed students that acquired degrees from the following three methods.

Online degree programs allow working professionals to expand upon their career by giving them the ability to work full-time and incorporate education into their everyday life. Business programs, in particular, expand upon a person’s career by opening up potential for growth, whether it’s within the employee’s current team or a movement into management. It also opens doors to other career opportunities. With how business degrees are attractive to the adult learner and online degree programs are attractive to the working professional, it’s no wonder that the combining the two produces the most ideal educational experience for job growth available.

Selecting an online degree program can be overwhelming though, especially with hundreds of options out there of every credible (and not credible) variety. The following are three of the best online degree programs DegreeGo has found over years of researching the distance learning education industry. Each of them are unique in different ways, from ethical to worldly to exclusively online business degree programs.